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Quadrupeds Are Learning to Dribble, Catch, and Balance

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Now that anyone, anywhere can get themselves a quadrupedal robot without having to apply for a major research grant, we’re seeing all kinds of fun research being done with our four-legged electromechanical friends. Conventional cameras make this problem worse, which is why the UZH researchers are instead relying on event cameras.

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This Computer Pioneer’s Invention Made Zoom Possible

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Many IEEE members credit a parent or a teacher for encouraging them to pursue an engineering career, but for Erol Gelenbe it was his next-door neighbor in his hometown of Ankara, Turkey. That was in the late 1950s. “For For my Ph.D., I was interested in computers, but not computers in the sense of practical things,” Gelenbe says. “I

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The French are coming. The Green Piece

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At the event, Renault unveiled four electric vehicles: the four-door saloon Fluence; the Kangoo ZE electric delivery van; the Zoe ZE, an ultra-cute city coupe; and the Twizy ZE, a two-seat, four-wheeled enclosed electric enclosed scooter.

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